Fort Worth, Texas – although Cam Ward has not decided if he will launch at the NFL combines next week, the field marshal knows how he will respond to any explorer or team personnel who asked him if he renounced the hurricanes of Miami by not finishing His final game with the team.
“It’s fine, you’re going to recruit me or not,” Ward said Monday night before receiving the Davey O’Brien award as the best university field marshal in the Nation. “If you don’t bring me, it’s your fault. You have to remember that you are the same team that must play with me for the rest of my career, and I will remember.”
Ward was bathed in online criticism, which suggested that he resigned from hurricanes after he did not play the second half of pop-tarts Bowl, a 42-41 defeat against Iowa State, in December. He broke the record of the NCAA Division I for the race passes of the race before part time.
The field marshal, who could be the first player selected in the NFL draft in April, said the decision not to play in the second half of that bowl game was predetermined by him and the coaching staff.
“I only think we got what we needed. They saw things in which they believe they need to work … for this season. And they also knew, you know, what I had on the line.” Ward said. “We feel that we are doing the best for the program and for me. I mean, it was a difficult decision, especially when, you know, some boys of our team did not play with who I thought I should have played. It was also you know, those guys thought in his future in the same way that I thought of mine. “
Miami coach Mario Cristobal has defended Ward. Last month, he described the accusations that Ward resigned from the team “a false narrative.”
“If I could do it again, I would do it in the same way,” Ward said on Monday, although he then added: “I wish I had ended up winning the game. If we had won the game, they wouldn’t do it. I haven’t said anything.
With the first of his three TouchDown passes in the pop-tarts Bowl, during which he launched for 190 yards to take Miami to an advantage of 31-28 in the half-time, Ward established the I-FBS and FCS-registration division In 156 TouchDowns, one more than the case of Houston Keenum (2007 to 2011). Miami used Emory Williams as a field marshal in the second half. Since then, hurricanes have added the former field marshal of Georgia Carson Beck as a transfer.
Ward finished his university career with 158 TD passes, and his 18,189 air yards: 6,908 in Incarnate Word, 6,968 in the state of Washington and 4,313 in Miami, is the third most in the history of the NCAA, only with Keenum and Dillon Gabriel . In his only season with Miami, Ward established a school record for a season for yards, finishing (305), TouchDown passes (39) and completion rate, both for a season and for a race, with 67.2%.
As for the next combination, Ward said he had not found a plan of what he would do next week in Indianapolis. He plans to throw on the professional day of Miami.
The Davey O’Brien Prize ceremony occurred approximately three weeks after Ward accepted the Manning award. He followed Jayden Daniels, the winner of the Heisman 2023 trophy who also won both Field Mariscal Awards before being the Selection of Draft Number 2 last year and then take Washington’s commanders to the NFC championship game.
“Seeing him succeed,” Ward said over Daniels, “is motivating not only for me but for all other field marshal.”
